. >> next, a call from donald in hampton, new hampshire, for susan page of the "u.s.a. today." donald's a democrat. >> yes. >> you're on, sir. >> yes. my gripe is with -- i'm disabled, i have c.t. and they think that they want to cut out the taxes and $700 billion with medicaid and it's just ridiculous. how am i going to survive? i mean, we can't afford mitt romney. i mean, this is just a load of b.s., excuse my language. you can't be doing that to me. i'm a democrat and i want obama . >> thanks so much. that $700 billion figure has been contested by both sides and it's medicare, not medicaid. can you give us your understanding from your reporting on what's really at stake there? >> yes. under the affordable care act, $716 billion in funding for the program called medicare advantage, would be cut. now that's not -- it's a secondary, almost experimental project that they had in medicare, to allow some medicare beneficiaries to choose to buy their medicare coverage with private insurance companies. it was supposed to be a money safer, it turned out to cost money. and that's one r